Friday, November 23, 2007

the BG Style I'd Like To See

I would love to see the combination of Milt Gross's BG drawing stylewith the painting style of Art and Monte

Look at these great colors! None of that pink purple and lime green stuff here.

Note the clever thinking of where to have strong contrast and where to have low contrast. Whatever has the strongest contrasts-like the house colors and values, draws attention to itself against the low contrasts of the grass wall and sky.

The house colors are all related too but the values are more contrasted than the relative colors. The colors all have orange-beige in them. This makes it hold together as one entity- a house.I've been helping out a few cartoon students who have shown an apitude and eagerness to learn, like Amir and Mitch.

If anyone wants to practice and shows some aptitude for BG painting, I'll give you some tips.

Here's a simple one to practice on. Blow it up, trace it and paint it using Art's techniques. r paint one of the other Milt Gross BGs.

28 comments:

Milt Gross was a true master! In creating his comic strips, Milt did it all himself--he had to Bob Clampett, Phil DeGuard & Rod Scribner rolled into one (and I don't think too many cartoonists can do that with equal success).

Here is my painting of the Gross Living Room. I fear that the colors might be too pastel, but I'd love to hear your comments and suggestions. Rip is apart if you must, but please help me to get better at this.

What I love about Milt Gross is that his drawings are crazy but clean and clear. These backgrounds are excellent examples of that. Since his only animated films were done in B&W it would be cool to see them in color, as you've indicated...

Those H-B backgrounds are superb!it seems like sometime after the early 60's our color palate became more and more limited and primary.(or dark and dingy in some cases). Incidentally,I got to say that the backgrounds you guys did in Boo Boo Runs Wild were incredible,you proved it can still be done!